Thursday March 8, 2012 @ 8PM, Roulette (509 Atlantic at 3rd Ave)

Monique Buzzarté Premieres Frances White

An evening of two innovative women in music on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Lam premieres her “Five Songs From Cold Mountain” (baritone, flute, viola & harp) & “Age D’Or” (french horn & baritone), and her “…Like Water” (violin, piano & percussion) receives its New York premiere. Buzzarté premieres White’s “Tracing”, for trombone and electronic sound, which was funded by the MAP Fund for Creative Arts Performance Projects. Buzzarté also presents works by Pauline Oliveros (with pianist Sarah Cahill), Alice Shields, Sorrel Hays, & Buzzarté’s own work “Subtle Winds” for trombone octet.

 ”…An altogether mesmerizing sequence of meticulously
detailed sonorities, swiftly moving from passages of
static meditation to lashings of full orchestral forces.”
-Alex Ross on Bun-Ching Lam, New York Times

In celebration of the release of her two-CD set of new works on Mutable Music, composer Bun-Ching Lam premieres two new works: “Five Songs From Cold Mountain” features baritone Thomas Buckner, flutist Barry Crawford, violist Liu Wen Ting, and harpist Nina Kellman. “Age D’Or” features Buckner with Jill Van Nostrand on french horn. “…Like Water” will get its New York premiere, with pianist Joe Kubera and percussionist Chris Nappi.

“Buzzarté’s trombone – sometimes serene and stately, sometimes
wolf-howl mournful – adds abstract colours to the immense,
humming backdrop.” – Mark Fisher, The Wire (May 2008)

Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music.  In addition to Frances White’s monumental work “Tracing”, the program includes a rare acoustic work by Pauline Oliveros, “The Gender of Now:  There But Not There”, with pianist Sarah Cahill.  Other works on the program are Alice Shield’s “Mioritza:  Requiem for Rachel Corrie”, for trombone and computer music, and Sorrel Hays’ “Wake Up and Dream”, for trombone and tape.  Buzzarté’s immersive work “Subtle Winds” features eight trombones: Buzzarté will be joined by Jen Baker, Mark Broschinsky, Kevin James, Bridget MacDonald, Johannes Pfannkuch, Deborah Weisz, and Peter Zummo

Purchase tickets online and enter to win Bun Ching Lam’s new 2CD set on Mutable Music and Frances White’s new CD on Pogus!

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Roulette (509 Atlantic at 3rd Ave)
509 Atlantic Ave
(On the corner of Atlantic + 3rd Aves)
Downtown Brooklyn, NY

2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR
(917) 267-0363